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...humiliating defeat by British forces, the military government has never issued a full explanation for the fiasco. Former President Leopoldo Galtieri, who masterminded the foiled invasion and then left office in disgrace three days after his country's surrender, has finally lifted that veil of secrecy. His candid account of military incompetence and official bungling stunned not only his countrymen but members of the ruling three-man junta and his successor, President Reynaldo Bignone. Last week the government charged Galtieri with violating military regulations that bar officers from discussing political matters without permission. They sentenced him to 45 days...
...learned our lesson about taking opponents lightly last week against MIT. I guess we redeemed ourselves," Crimson three-man Ed Fleming said yesterday...
...punitive measures. The junta now faces an uncomfortable dilemma. It cannot buy off the unions, given the economic climate. Yet if the regime stands firm, it will almost certainly face further work stoppages. Last week's strike, said Admiral Rubén Oscar Franco, a member of the three-man ruling junta, "demonstrated an irresponsible and inflexible attitude on the part of the union leadership...
...comrades within the Ministry of Defense. Every individual who was not in agreement with the politics of the Sandinista National Liberation Front was considered to be an excessively dangerous element. For example, people who had disagreed politically with the National Directorate [the nine-member body that oversees the ruling three-man junta] began to face trumped-up charges of theft, even murder...
Most distressing to Begin, who emerged last week from a period of mourning for his wife Aliza, was an action taken by the three-man commission of inquiry that has been investigating the Beirut massacre. In that infamous incident, at least 800 Palestinians were killed in September by Lebanese Christian militiamen who had been allowed by Israeli military authorities to enter two refugee camps in Beirut. Last week the commission sent formal letters of warning to Prime Minister Begin, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and six ranking military and intelligence officials. The commission advised each man that...